I managed for the first time Windows 10 to pass 40 percent in terms of market share, according to Web applications. More specifically, it was 40.4 percent, which is marketing for personal computers running Windows. That is an increase of one percentage point.
But Windows 7 is not the biggest, with a simple Windows computer of 47.3 percent, writes Computerworld.
In absolute numbers, it is estimated that 606 million PCs are running Windows 10. That estimate is based on Microsoft’s estimate that there are 1.5 billion Windows PCs in the world.
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I can have Microsoft for Windows 10 available on almost 700 million “connected devices”. In addition to the PC, there are also game consoles, tablets and a few phones. This compares with Microsoft’s goal for Windows 10 at launch in May 2015: “one billion devices in two to three years”.
But the goal of one billion was abandoned already a year later, with justifications that it was possible to sell Windows phones.
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Right now, the biggest hurdle for Windows 10 is by all accounts … Windows 7. Then the old faithful can only lose 0.05 percentage points. So pretty much nothing at all. The increase for Windows 10 comes instead from Windows 8, 8.1 and XP.
This means that people are abandoning Windows 7 because Windows 10 cannot remove market share. We’ll see if that happens within the standard support for Windows 7 in 18 months.